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[ { "msg_contents": "> > Are we ready for RC1 yet?\n> \n> I think so. The NO_MKTIME_BEFORE_1970 issue was bothering me, but I\n> feel that's resolved now. (It'd be nice to hear a crosscheck from\n> some AIX users though...)\n\nabstime, tinterval and horology fail on AIX. \nThe rest is now working (AIX 4.3.2 xlc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\nOur application development group has observed what we \nfeel is inconsistent behavior when comparing numeric \ncolumn references to constant/literal values in SQL. \n\nI would appreciate comments on the best approach to \nthis problem that will allow for the highest\nportability of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Wouldn't it work for cntxDirty to be set not by LockBuffer, but by\n> XLogInsert for each buffer that is included in its argument list?\n\nI thought to add separate call to mark context dirty but above\nshould work if all callers to XLogInsert always pass all\nmodified buffers - please chec...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> \tI have removed the NO_MKTIME_BEFORE_1970 symbol from irix5.h,\n> rebuilt 7.3b2, and reran the regression. The three time tests\n> (tinterval, horology, abstime) now match the Solaris expected files.\n> \tI checked the timezone files, and the system does not appear to\n> have savings tim...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > I think so. The NO_MKTIME_BEFORE_1970 issue was bothering me, but I\n> > feel that's resolved now. (It'd be nice to hear a crosscheck from\n> > some AIX users though...)\n> \n> abstime, tinterval and horology fail on AIX. \n> The rest is now working (AIX 4.3.2 xlc 5.0.0.2).\n> \n> I am ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n if (ic_flag == 1) {\n /*only select those non-IC/Spyder nodes that has full update set*/\n EXEC SQL DECLARE full_dyn_node CURSOR FOR\n SELECT node_name FROM NODE\n WHERE dynamic_community = 'f' AND ic_flag='n' AND machine_type!=22\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tatsuo, are you or anyone else working on adding PREPARE, EXECUTE support to\npgbench?\n\nIf not, I can do it myself and if you are interested, I'll send you the\npatch.\n\n- Curtis\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:41:40 -0400", "msg_from": "\"Curtis Faith\" <curtis@galtair.com>...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have been doing some research about how to create new routines for\nstring collation and character case mapping that would allow us to break\nout of the one-locale-per-process scheme. I have found that the Unicode\nstandard provides a lot of useful specifications and data for this. The\nU...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nHas anyone given much thought to improving pg_dump's object order algorithm\nfor 7.4? It seems that now we have dependencies, it should just be a matter\nof doing a breadth-first or depth-first search over the pg_depend table to\ngenerate a valid order of oids.\n\nTo allow for mess-up...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hey Hackers - \nI was testing beta5 and found a performance regression involving\napplication of constraints into a VIEW - I've got a view that is fairly\nexpensive, involving a subselet and an aggregate. When the query is\nrewritten in 7.2.3, the toplevel constraint is used to filter before...
[ { "msg_contents": "(I posted this on the bugs and jdbc newsgroups last week\nbut have seen no response. Imho, this really needs to\nbe fixed since the bug makes it impossible to use the\ndriver in a multithreaded environment so I'm reposting\nto hackers and patches.)\n\n _\nMats Lofkvist\nmal@algonet.se\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed that the planner is unable to select an index scan when a partial\nindex is available, the partial index is based on a \"NOT NULL\" condition.\n\nExample:\n\nstart with no index:\nmydb=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE select id from str where url='foobar';\nNOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n\nSeq Scan on str ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> mydb=# create index str_idx_url on str(url) where url is not null;\n> CREATE\n> mydb=# analyze str;\n> ANALYZE\n> mydb=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE select id from str where url='foobar';\n> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:\n> \n> Seq Scan on str (cost=0.00..91.05 rows=3 width=4) (actual \n\nYou can try an inde...
[ { "msg_contents": ">You can try an index like:\n>create index str_idx_url on str(url) where url >= ''; \n>\n>I think that should be identical. ('' is the smallest string, no ?)\n\nThanks alot, it works now. But I still think the NOT NULL case would be\nuseful.\n\nBest regards,\n\tMario Weilguni\n", "msg_dat...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> My suspicion falls on the very-recently-added awk calls. Try changing\n> \n> (echo \"SET autocommit TO 'on';\"; awk 'BEGIN {printf \n> \"\\\\set ECHO all\\n\"}'; cat \"$inputdir/sql/$1.sql\") |\n\nWhy use awk for this at all ? and not:\necho \"\\\\set ECHO all\"\n\n??\nAndreas\n"...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt seems to me that about the only major issue right now is testing the\nvarious platforms ... would anyone disagree with putting out an RC1 on\nFriday whose primary purpose is platform testing? I don't believe there\nis anything outstanding right now that would require us to do a beta6, a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've got a question about the foreign key constraint behavior.\n\nIt looks to me that inserts within transactions into a child table, which have the same FK value back to the parent will block until the first txn will commit or rollback. (see example below)\n\nThis seems to be based on the fa...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\n> Discussing the press release on IRC, we realized that we really want \n> the number of code, /contrib, and GBORG contributors. Can anyone think \n> of a way we could get that?\n\nThat's a tough one. One way would be to scour the CVS logs...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have installed a 128k ISDN line to my home to service candle.pha.pa.us\n& momjian.postgresql.org. You should be seeing the same performance you\nsaw while I was in my old house pre-August.\n\nI hope ADSL will reach my house within the next year.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just came across this article:\n\nhttp://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/11/11/1848223.shtml?tid=3\n\nIt's an ERP company, OpenMFG, that uses Linux, PostgreSQL and QT. In the\narticle they say they're active in Postgres development. Just wondering if\nthey wanted to say hi!\n\nChris\n\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nWe received a query through the Advocacy site about whether we support\nAIX 5.1 or not, so am trying to find out.\n\nJust took a look at the Supported Platforms list, and the FAQ_AIX\ndocument (for 7.2.x) and it doesn't seem to mention specific versions of\nAIX that are supported....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there!\n\nI want to propose the patch for adding the hierarchical queries posibility.\nIt allows to construct queries a la Oracle for ex:\nSELECT a,b FROM t CONNECT BY a PRIOR b START WITH cond;B\n\nI've seen this type of queries often made by adding a new type, which stores\nposition of r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n When I change view and change number of column PostgreSQL return error :\n'cannot change number of column in view'\nIs it too hard set this command\nif view exits drop view\nand then change view\n\nIt is like with return type in function\n\nNow 'or replace' don't help too much\n\nre...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > > > We received a query through the Advocacy site about whether we support\n> > > > AIX 5.1 or not, so am trying to find out.\n> > > \n> > > It should work. Andreas just submitted a port confirmation on AIX\n> > > 4.3.2 ...\n\n> > Do you feel there's anyone around that would be able to...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > I don't have AIX 5 here, so cannot test, sorry.\n> > But yes, it should definitely work.\n> > \n> > There is a known possible performance improvement for concurrent sessions on \n> > multiprocessor AIX machines. The now depricated \"cs(3)\" used for the AIX TAS \n> > implementation shou...
[ { "msg_contents": "Believe it or not, I'm trying to compile today's cvs pgsql on a\nDebian 2.2.19 system. Compilation dies while compiling pg_dump with\n\n../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `atexit'\n\nIn the mail archives there is a mention of upgrading libc to\nlibc6-dev_2.2.5-3_i3...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nI emailed a few people to try to get some platform reports. What was the\nsolution to this problem? It was AWK or something wasn't it? Will Martin\nhave to try RC1?\n\nChris\n\n> > We are trying to get our supported platforms list together, and\n> so far we\n> > have not had an...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have moved more variables into the log_* GUC category in an attempt to\nmake log control more understandable. Changes to postgresql.conf\nattached.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If y...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'd like to implement FOR EACH STATEMENT triggers. AFAICS it shouldn't\nbe too tricky -- so if there's some show-stopper that prevented it\nfrom being done earlier, let me know now, please :-)\n\nSome random notes on the implementation I'm thinking of:\n\n - in the function called by a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Just a quick note to mention that I've resigned from the PostgreSQL \nsteering committee. It has been a lot of fun and very rewarding to \nparticipate in PostgreSQL development over the last six years, but it is \ntime to take a break and to move on to other projects.\n\nThanks to Marc, Bruce...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@fourpalms.org] \n> Sent: 15 November 2002 06:38\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] Time to move on...\n> \n> \n> Just a quick note to mention that I've resigned from the PostgreSQL \n> steering c...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Problem is when I want change view (or functions) with a lot of dependecies\n> I must drop and recreate all dependent views (or functions) - \n> I want add only one column in view \n> I don't know if solution hard for that.\n\nI do not see how adding a column to a view would invalidate\nd...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHi there!\n\nI want to propose the patch for adding the hierarchical queries posibility.\nIt allows to construct queries a la Oracle for ex:\nSELECT a,b FROM t CONNECT BY a PRIOR b START WITH cond;B\n\nI've seen this type of queries often made by adding a new type, which stores\nposition of...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n When I call DECLARE CURSOR out of transaction command success,\nbut cursor is not created\n Reference manual say that this get error :\nERROR: DECLARE CURSOR may only be used in begin/end transaction blocks \n I don't find this text in pgsql source code\nWhat is problem ?\nThanks\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Seems like a result of Alverro's cluster patch -- looks like the patch\ndidn't updated the expected results for the regression tests\nfully. Diffs below.\n\nCheers,\n\nNeil\n\n-- \nNeil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC\n\n*** ./expected/cluster.out\tFri Nov 15 12:35:36 2002\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Ok. Transaction safe truncate is simply transaction safe cluster\nwithout the data copy and a slightly different set of permission checks.\n\nI'd like to split cluster_rel() in cluster.c into 2 functions at line\n174. The permission checks, locking, etc will remain in cluster_rel(). \nThe b...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nI've just tried to build the Win32 components under Visual Studio's C++\ncompiler from the win32.mak CVS archive at\n:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot and found that the\nfollowing file was missing;\n\nsrc\\bin\\psql\\sql_help.h\n\nI've copied the file from the...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've gotten really tired of explaining to newbies why stuff involving\nchar(n) fields doesn't work like they expect. Our current behavior is\nnot valid per SQL92 anyway, I believe.\n\nI think there is a pretty simple solution now that we have pg_cast:\nwe could stop treating char(n) as binar...
[ { "msg_contents": "> > > void\n> > > heap_mark4fk_lock_acquire(Relation relation, HeapTuple tuple) {\n\nJust wonder how are you going to implement it - is it by using\nsome kind of \"read-locks\", ie FK transaction \"locks\" PK to prevent\ndelete (this is known as \"pessimistic\" approach)?\nAbout two years ago...
[ { "msg_contents": "Where can I find a list of the new features appearing in Postgresql 7.3?\n", "msg_date": "16 Nov 2002 08:47:58 -0800", "msg_from": "mydejamail@yahoo.co.uk (My Deja)", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Where can I find a list of the new features appearing in Postgresql\n\t7....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\nI want change DatabaseMetaData.getImportedKeys that return name of constraint\nin place of pg_trigger.tgargs (for FK_NAME)\nQuery for getImportedKey is like :\n\nQuery 1:\n\nSELECT DISTINCT n.nspname as pnspname,n2.nspname as fnspname, c.relname as prelname,\n\tc2.relname as frelname, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt looks okay from here ... I'll put out a notice later this evening if\nnobody sees anything wrong with it ...\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:04:10 -0400 (AST)", "msg_from": "\"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@hub.org>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "RC1 package...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nIn the pg_stat_activity view, the usesysid is shown as having type Oid.\nHowever pg_shadow says it's an integer. Is there a reason? Looks like\na bug.\n\nThis patch seems to corrects this issue, but I don't know if there's\nsomething else involved.\n\nIndex: src/include/cat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI'm just taking the btree shrinking problem, and saw in the README:\n\n+ Deletions are handled by getting a super-exclusive lock on the target\n page, so that no other backend has a pin on the page when the deletion\n starts. This means no scan is pointing at the page. This i...
[ { "msg_contents": "For 7.4 I would like to add a function for importing float8 values\ninto cube. But because the cube data type is variable length I am\nnot sure what a good approach would be.\n\nCurrently this can be poorly done using text as an intermediate type.\nAs far as I can tell functions can't take se...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is a successful report for OpenBSD 3.2 on sparc and i386\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: bpalmer [mailto:bpalmer@crimelabs.net]\n> Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 2:14 AM\n> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne\n> Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 7.3 Platform Testing\n>\n>\n> Sorry for taking so l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Fellow DBI and PostgreSQL Hackers,\n\nApologies for cross-posting, but I figure that some of my questions can \nbe better answered by DBI folks, while others can be better answered by \nPostgreSQL interface folks.\n\nSince Tim pointed out that DBD::Pg hasn't been updated to use DBI's \nD...
[ { "msg_contents": "Richard Pais <chris_pais@yahoo.com> wrote:\n\n>\n>Just an explanation in the FAQ that the ipc-daemon is not running won't suffice. Because in my case I had ipc-daemon (version 1.11) running and it still hung (Jason's patch reported the IpcMemoryCreate error). Only when I downgraded to versi...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> I've gotten really tired of explaining to newbies why stuff involving\n> char(n) fields doesn't work like they expect. Our current behavior is\n> not valid per SQL92 anyway, I believe.\n> \n> I think there is a pretty simple solution now that we have pg_cast:\n> we could stop treating ch...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI recently installed pg 7.2.3 on my linux box and discovered that\nthere are some problems with datatype serial and sequence.\n\n1.) If you create a table with a datatype serial, the corrsponding\nsequence will be created, but if you drop the table the sequence is\nnot dropped.\n\n2.) ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> > is it planed cursor out of a transaction in 7.4 ?\n> \n> I do not think we will allow cross-transaction cursors ever. \n> What would\n> it mean to have a cross-transaction cursor, anyway? Does it show a\n> frozen snapshot as of the time it was opened? The usefulness of that\n> seem...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am trying to figure out which is the best way to store custom collation\ntables on a PostgreSQL server system, and what kind of interface to\nprovide to users to allow them to create their own.\n\nA collation table essentially consists of a mapping 'character code ->\nweight' for every char...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n Well, we're finally coming to the end of yet another release cycle ...\nright now, baring any problems creeping up, we're planning on packaging up\nRC2 on Friday morning, with an announcement going out that evening for ppl\nto test and confirm everything is okay.\n\n I...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe know PostgreSQL will compile and run on the Sony Playstation 2, and\nwe now have the opportunity to include pre-compiled PostgreSQL RPM's\n(for the Playstation 2 Linux kit) on the Sony site, as part of the\n\"Compiled For Your Convenience\" collection.\n\nNow, we just need ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm pretty sure I saw a reference within the last 3 or 4 weeks on one of\nthe mailing lists to a script that would put in place, after an upgrade\nto 7.3, dependency information that would have been automatically\ncreated if the schema had been created ab initio in 7.3. However, I\ncan't fin...
[ { "msg_contents": "To whom it may concern,\n\nI am a java developer using postgres as a DB server. Me and my development team have a product comprised of about 50 tables, with about 10,000 records in the largest table. We have looked for concrete answers in books and the web for solutions to several problems ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> >> Hmm ... now that's an interesting thought. So the input converter would\n> >> actively strip trailing blanks, output would add them back,\n> \n> > But how would the output know how many to put back?\n> \n> The output routine would need access to the column typmod. Which it\n> would h...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nWe need a quote from a major code contributor to PostgreSQL about the\nupcoming 7.3 release -- something about how great the new release is,\nor some of the features in the release. We need this for the 7.3\npress release, which will be drafted in 2 days.\n\nIf you have something ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there any reason why the grolist field in the table pg_group is \nimplemented as an array and not as a separate table?\n\nAccording to the documentation:\n\n<quote source=\"Postgresql 7.2 User Manual, chapter 6 near the end\">\nArrays are not sets; using arrays in the manner describ...
[ { "msg_contents": "May be I miss something, but seems there is a problem with float4\nin 7.2.3 and 7.3RC1 (6.53 works fine):\n\ntest=# create table t ( a float4);\nCREATE TABLE\ntest=# insert into t values (0.1);\nINSERT 32789 1\ntest=# select * from t where a=0.1;\n a\n---\n(0 rows)\n\ntest=# select * from t w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Heres a patch which will create the sql_help.h file if it doesn't already\nexist using an installed copy of perl. I've tested it using perl v5.6.1 from\nActiveState and all appears to work.\n\nCan someone commit this for me, or throw back some comments.\n\nThanks,\n\nAl.\n\n\n--- src/bin/psql...
[ { "msg_contents": "CVSROOT:\t/cvsroot\nModule name:\tpgsql-server\nChanges by:\ttgl@postgresql.org\t02/11/20 19:42:20\n\nModified files:\n\tdoc/src/sgml : runtime.sgml \n\tsrc/backend/optimizer/path: costsize.c \n\tsrc/backend/optimizer/plan: createplan.c planmain.c planner.c \n\tsrc/backend/utils/misc: guc.c...
[ { "msg_contents": "The documentation on changing shared memory kernel settings on xBSD\n(namely FreeBSD, possibly others as well) isn't ideal, IMHO. It says:\n\n%%\n The options SYSVSHM and SYSVSEM need to be enabled when the\n kernel is compiled. (They are by default.) The maximum size of\n shared ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm a new comer of PostgreSQL, could anyone tell me can I view the\ncontent of logs( updating a tuple, etc.) ? And if I can, how to do it?\n\n \n\nThx!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m a new comer of PostgreSQL, could anyone tell\nme can I view the content of logs( updating a tuple, etc.) ? And if I ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs there any reason why the grolist field in the table pg_group is\nimplemented as an array and not as a separate table?\n\nAccording to the documentation:\n\n<quote source=\"Postgresql 7.2 User Manual, chapter 6 near the end\">\nArrays are not sets; using arrays in the manner describe...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\n\nI'm new on this list, my name is David Pradier, and i'm french.\n\nI'm currently trying the new postgresql 7.3rc1, and i've noticed that if\ni compared an integer to an empty string, i ran in an error.\n\nExample :\n=# select nom_comm from operation where id_operation = '';\nERROR: pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nAre those two syntaxes eqivalent ?\n\nselect * from users where monitored;\nselect * from users where monitored=true;\n\nIf the answer is yes, the optimimer probably doesn't agree with you :)\n\nTested on RC1:\n\ntemplate1=# create table a (a boolean, b text);\nCREATE TABLE\n\n\n.... insert...
[ { "msg_contents": "There had been a great deal of discussion of how to improve the\nperformance of select/sorting on this list, what about\ninsert/delete/update?\n\nIs there any rules of thumb we need to follow? What are the parameters\nwe should tweak to whip the horse to go faster?\n\nThanks\n\n-- \nWei Weng\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Do this:\n\ncreate database \"adsf asdf\";\n\nThen to a pg_dumpall and you get this:\n\n\\connect \"adsf asdf\"\npg_dump: too many command line options (first is 'asdf')\nTry 'pg_dump --help' for more information.\npg_dumpall: pg_dump failed on adsf asdf, exiting\nLOG: pq_recvbuf: unexpected...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nsystem = powerpc-ibm-aix4.2.1.0 \n\n\nconfigure command \n\nenv CC=gcc ./configure --with-maxbackends=1024 --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-syslog --enable-odbc --disable-nls\n\ngmake check output file\n\n\nregression.out\n--------------\n\nparallel group (13 tests): text varchar oid...
[ { "msg_contents": "I am going to work on nested transactions for 7.4.\n\nMy goal is to first implement nested transactions:\n\n\tBEGIN;\n\tSELECT ...\n\tBEGIN;\n\tUPDATE;\n\tCOMMIT;\n\tDELETE;\n\tCOMMIT;\n\nand later savepoints (Oracle):\n\n\n\tBEGIN;\n\tSELECT ...\n\tSAVEPOINT t1;\n\tUPDATE;\n\tSAVEPOINT t2;\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi there!\n\nPatch is posted to pgsql-patches. docs inside.\nSQL 99 version will be later.\n\nregards,\n\n---\n.evgen\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:57:40 +0400 (SAMT)", "msg_from": "Evgen Potemkin <evgent@ns.terminal.ru>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Hirarchi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, all\n\nWhile testing RC1, I found CONNECTBY had another problem. \nIt seems to me that SCHEMA can't be used in CONNECTBY.\nIs it just in time for 7.3 to be added to TODO items ?\n\n\n\nCREATE TABLE test (id int4, parent_id int4, t text);\nINSERT INTO test VALUES(11, null, 'aaa');\nINSERT ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi everyone,\n\nWas just reading an article regarding Sun technologies on TheRegister:\n\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/28259.html\n\n*******\n\nThe real problem with databases is administrative, he argued, where the\nDBA must do index rebuilds.\n\n\"Clustra had eliminated that prob...
[ { "msg_contents": "I had read on one of the newsgroups that there is a planned native port to\nthe win32 platform, is this true? I read most of the win32 thread off of\nthe dev site and it was not clear if this was true.\n\nIn either case, I would like to advocate such a port to be done, and soon,\nnot for any...
[ { "msg_contents": "I see we just recently made the word \"value\" reserved:\n\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/keywords.c.diff?r1=1.130&r2=1.131\n\nI noticed it because it breaks the contrib/tablefunc regression test. ISTM \nlike this will break quite a few application...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm getting lots of regression failures:\n\n========================\n 25 of 89 tests failed.\n========================\n\nall pretty much looking like:\n\n SELECT '' AS one, o.* FROM OID_TBL o WHERE o.f1 = 1234;\n! ERROR: Relation \"pg_constraint_contypid_index\" does not exist\n SELEC...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello!\n\nI hope that someone here could help.\n\nI'm using PostgreSQL7.1.3\n\nI have 3 tables in my DB: the tables are defined in the following way:\n\n\nCREATE TABLE category(\nid SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,\n// etc etc\n\n)\n;\n\nCREATE TABLE subcategory(\nid SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Guys,\n\nI'm starting work on ADD COLUMN. I'm going to allow:\n\n* SERIAL, SERIAL8\n* DEFAULT\n* NOT NULL\n\netc...\n\nThe one big programming difficulty I see is the process of running through\nall the existing tuples in the relation the column was added to and\nevaluating the default fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Marc, would you package RC2 please? CVS is ready to go and I would like\nto still hit the final release date of Wednesday.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, ...
[ { "msg_contents": "> I know, it's late, and I assume this is intentional, but wanted to check:\n\n<snip>\n\n> This drive phpgroupware nuts...\n>\n> (their code needs help, but).\n\nIt is in the release notes. I'm not sure why the behaviour was changed\n(other than it really is bad behaviour).\n\nChris\n\n", ...
[ { "msg_contents": "I just wrote a script to automate my post-patch application testing. \nThis should make for few problems after patch application:\n\n\tpgstop\n\trm -r /u/pg/data\n\tpgmakeall -c\t# make clean, make\n\tinitdb\n\tpgstart\n\tcd /pg/test/regress\n\tgmake clean\n\tgmake all runtest\n_\n\n-- \n Br...
[ { "msg_contents": "-- \nDavid Wheeler AIM: dwTheory\ndavid@wheeler.net ICQ: 15726394\nhttp://david.wheeler.net/ Yahoo!: dew7e\n Jabber: Theory@jabber.org", "msg_date": "Sun...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, I have been playing around with contrib/dbmirror with RC2 and\nfaced with following errors:\n\n perl DBMirror.pl slaveDatabase.conf\nGlobal symbol \"$setResult\" requires explicit package name at DBMirror.pl line 131.\nGlobal symbol \"$setResult\" requires explicit package name at DBMirro...
[ { "msg_contents": "\tAnyone knows right install location and name for language .mo files ?\n\n\tI created new .po file, configure and make was OK.\nTranslation is also checked as explained on PostgreSQL site.\nWhen I install, .mo file is copied to:\n/usr/local/pgsql/share/locale/hr_HR/LC_MESSAGES/postgres.mo (R...
[ { "msg_contents": "system = powerpc-ibm-aix4.2.1.0 \n\n\nconfigure command \n\nenv CC=gcc ./configure --with-maxbackends=1024 --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-syslog --enable-odbc --disable-nls\n\ngmake check output file\n\n\nregression.out\n--------------\n\nparallel group (13 tests): text varchar oid i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Sorry forgot to include that I had to add -lssl and -lcrypto ti the libpq \nline in Makefile.global.in in the src directory to get ecpg to link\n\nas follows\n\n286c286\n< libpq = -L$(libpq_builddir) -lpq\n---\n> libpq = -L$(libpq_builddir) -lpq -lssl -lcrypto\n\n\nhorwitz@argoscomp.com (Samu...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nMorning all ...\n\n On Sunday this weekend, we packaged up PostgreSQL v7.3rc2 for testing\n... this release, if all goes well, will become the \"Final Release\" on\nWednesday, unless anyone comes up with any outstanding issues.\n\n At this point, we need as many ppl as possible to try an...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\ni've read that there are 2 different native ports for Windows\nsomewhere.\n\nI've searched for them but didn't found them. Is there anyone who can\npoint me to a link or send me a copy of the sources?\n\nThanks\n\nUlrich\n----------------------------------\n This e-mail is virus sc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nJust trying to confirm my understanding of how PG manages transactions \nwith respect to stored procedures, in particular, stored procedures \nwhich invoke other procedures and their attendant SQL statements.\n\nAssuming the following description of a set of procedures:\n\n\tprocA cons...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have an IRC report, confirmed, that in RC2 initdb -W (set super-user\npassword) fails:\n\n\t$ initdb -W\n\tThe files belonging to this database system will be owned by user\n\t\"postgres\".\n\tThis user must also own the server process.\n\t\n\tThe database cluster will be initialized with l...
[ { "msg_contents": ">From another Solaris tester. Is anyone actually checking the web\nsubmissions?\n\nChris\n\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"Martin Renters\" <martin@datafax.com>\nTo: \"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>\nSent: Monday, November 25, 2002 2:27 PM\nSubject: Re: Postgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "Does anyone know who the Postgres security patcher mentioned in this article\nis:\n\nhttp://kernel.sysdoor.com/eng/\n\nIs it that guy who found all the buffer overflows?\n\nChris\n\n", "msg_date": "Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:24:28 -0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chriskl@fam...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was playing with the Japanese win32 7.2.1 port and I noticed that \"select\n0 / 0\" caused the server to crash and restart. I understand that it is a\ntotally unsupported version, but it should be easy enough to check vs. the\ncurrent version. Note that select 0.0/0.0 worked fine!\n\n\nMe...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have just applied a patch to 7.3 and current CVS to properly allocate\nan sprintf string in dbmirror:\n\n fullyqualtblname = SPI_palloc(strlen(tblname) + \n strlen(schemaname) + 6);\n sprintf(fullyqualtblname,\"\\\"%s\\\".\\\"%s\\\"\",\n sch...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce,\n\nyou're right, i'm asking about the sources because I want to help.\n\nIs it possible to help in this case or not?\n\nUlrich\n\n>>> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> 25.11.2002 18:51:39 >>>\nUlrich Neumann wrote:\n> Hello,\n> \n> i've read that there are 2 different native ports...
[ { "msg_contents": "Problem still exists in RC2\n\n\nhorwitz@argoscomp.com (Samuel A Horwitz)\n\n\n---------- Forwarded message ----------\nDate: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:12:55 -0500 (EST)\nFrom: Samuel A Horwitz <horwitz@argoscomp.com>\nTo: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] RC1? AIX 4.2.1.0 (fwd)\...
[ { "msg_contents": ">I was playing with the Japanese win32 7.2.1 port and I noticed that \"select\n>0 / 0\" caused the server to crash and restart. I understand that it is a\n>totally unsupported version, but it should be easy enough to check vs. the\n>current version. Note that select 0.0/0.0 worked fine!\n\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:merlin@rcsonline.com] \n> Sent: 22 November 2002 21:25\n> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\n> Subject: [HACKERS] PostGres and WIN32, a plea!\n> \n> \n> I had read on one of the newsgroups that there is a planned \n> native port ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Here is a good article on linking/loading:\n\n\thttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6463\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us\n pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001\n + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road\n + ...